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- ↑ Clarín: Piden la prescripción del caso Banco Alas (in Spanish)
- ↑ Una pesada herencia Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ Lewis, Paul. The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism. University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
- ↑ "Corruption in High and Not-So High Places" Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine - Odious Debts.
- ↑ Todo Argentina 1988 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Clarín: La Justicia ordenó que siga la causa contra un banco (in Spanish)
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